2013

Blythe, R.A., & Scott-Phillips, T.C. (2013). Why is combinatorial communication rare in the natural world, and why is language an exception to this trend? Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 10: 20130520. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0520

2008

Kirby, S., Cornish, H., & Smith, K. (2008). Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 105, 10681–10686. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707835105

2007

Kirby, S., Dowman, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 104, 5241–5245. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0608222104